Thanks for catching me that fish, but tomorrow I'll be hungry again. So [...] usually means kernel thread. And if I see that and want to know more about it, what documentation would I start looking at? If you hadn't just told me what scsi_eh_5 was, where would I look for a clue? Is there a good google search that would have told me this? Thanks, Dave <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Tomasz Torcz <<a href="mailto:tomek@crocom.com.pl">tomek@crocom.com.pl</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dnia 20-02-2008, śro o godzinie 10:40 -1000, Dave Burns pisze: <div class="Ih2E3d">> When I do ps -ef, I see a mysterious process: > > ps -ef|grep scsi_eh_5 > root 31004 11 0 09:29 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_5] > > How do I figure out what is really running, what rpm its from, etc.? > What do the brackets [...] indicate? </div> "ps" prints brackets when process arguments are not available to read. This is typical for kernel threads. scsi_eh_5 is a kernel thread, a SCSI Error Handler. It is spawned for each SCSI host in computer (there should be EH thread for each /sys/class/scsi_host/* ) <div class="Ih2E3d"> > I suspect this has to do with a USB drive I have plugged in (because I > have no scsi anything). </div> Probably yes. USB Mass Storage uses various SCSI command sets. Just like SATA, FC. -- Tomasz Torcz -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div>